Rolling HEAT Wheelchair Basketball

So, our coach is pretty dang amazing. We love you, Kaitlyn Eaton!! You’re the best role model to all of our athletes! ♿️🏀

The roster is set 🇺🇸

The NWBA and High Performance Team Selection Committee have announced the final 12 athletes for the 2026 U.S. Women’s Wheelchair Basketball National Team.

11 athletes bring Paralympic wheelchair basketball experience, including 10 silver medalists from Paris 2024.

Next stop: Ottawa 2026 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships

🔗 https://www.nwba.org/news_article/show/1360484

We recognize that athlete in blue! Great job to #33, Kylie, who travelled to play in an exhibition game at nationals! We are cheering you on!

Our team has a goal to make it to nationals some day, and we can’t wait to keep working towards it!

This is an awesome opportunity in the Champaign community! Illinois Wheelchair Basketball

We’ll be at the Dick’s House of Sports in Champaign on Saturday, March 21st. Come out and get in a chair, push around, shoot some baskets and have some fun. You must register for the event. The link is in our bio.

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We are winding down our season, so of course we had to do something super fun- GLOW IN THE DARK BASKETBALL! The kids had a BLAST and were definitely living their best lives! Watching this team bond and play together is always SO AMAZING! 🤩

From firsts… to forever. ❤️‍🔥♿️🏀

In December of 2024, this team went to their very first competition. Most of our athletes had never even seen wheelchair basketball live before — and suddenly, they were in it.

Learning it. Living it. Becoming it.

Since that day, so much has changed.
We’ve added new athletes, new coaches, new chairs, new balls, new jerseys. We’ve grown in numbers and in skill. We’ve grown in confidence and in belief.

But the one thing that has never changed — not for a single moment — is the HEART of this team.
The kindness they show one another.
The courage they carry onto the court.
The resilience they demonstrate when things get hard.

The joy they bring to every practice, every game, every single moment together.

This weekend, we competed in the Midwest Conference Tournament and finished 8th out of 10. But rankings don’t tell this story. They don’t show the athlete who never gave up on a single play. They don’t show the teammates cheering louder for each other than anyone else in the gym. They don’t show the coaches and families who have built something so much bigger than basketball.

They don’t show the heart of Rolling Heat.
We are incredibly proud of our athletes who received Academic Awards, proving their commitment extends far beyond the court.

And we celebrate two very special honors:
✨ Kylie Ritz, named Female MVP of the entire conference — for the second year in a row.
✨ Zeke Arnold, named First Team All-Tournament — recognized as one of the top players in the conference.

These honors are extraordinary, but what makes them even more meaningful is the way this team celebrates each other. Every success is shared. Every victory belongs to all of them.

This was our final tournament of the season. Practice will end in a few short weeks, and while this chapter is closing, the story is far from over.
We are endlessly grateful for this journey. For every challenge, every breakthrough, every laugh, every moment.

Because this team is more than basketball.
It’s belonging. It’s growth. It’s courage. It’s family.
And we cannot WAIT to see what comes next for Rolling Heat.

Stay with us — the best is still ahead. ♿️🏀

We definitely can not miss our incredible assistant coach, Morgan McCammon play in her last home tournament! Come cheer her on this weekend!

One time in front of the home crowd! We’ll see you next Friday!

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The best part of our team being in Champaign, is getting such INCREDIBLE role models to look up to. This weekend is the Illinois Wheelchair Basketball home tournament! We are so excited to go watch them play and cheer them on! ILL!

Next weekend. The ARC. Be there!

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The best part of wheelchair basketball? ♿️🏀 The COMMUNITY! Even when we play against other teams on the court, off the court- we are all one family! ❤️

Feeling so grateful to be included in this wonderful sport, and can’t wait to see how we continue to grow. It’s incredible to look back on all we have accomplished, since beginning our program in 2023! 🏆

Today, we probably played our best and most exciting game of the season, winning by one basket in overtime!!!

Our team has come such a long way, and we could not be prouder of the energy, teamwork, and effort our kids put in.

One more tournament this season, and it’s conference!

Go, Rolling HEAT Wheelchair Basketball!!

It’s been a fun weekend of basketball and connection! We get to play all the teams from Illinois this weekend, at the Lincolnway Special Recreation Association!

An exciting part was that some of our younger athletes were invited to play in the minis game, which was such a fun experience!

We are really proud of our team, especially Emma and Makenna, who earned our sparkler chain!

We have two more games tomorrow, which you can watch on YouTube! ♿️🏀